Author: Linda D. Urden DNSc RN CNS NE-BC FAANKathleen
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: nursing, priorities, care, critical, urden
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 0323052592
ISBN-13: 9780323052597

In this essentials version of the bestselling critical care nursing textbook (Thelan’s Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management, 5th Edition), Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 5th Edition concisely addresses all of the core critical care nursing topics and helps you identify priorities to effectively manage patient care. Priorities in Critical Care Nursing also covers ethical and legal issues, patient and family education, psychosocial alterations, sleep alterations, nutritional alterations, gerontologic considerations, and end-of-life care.UNIQUE! Determining your diagnosis

Author: Barbara Cherry DNSc MBA RNSusan R. Jacob PhD M
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: contemporary, nursing, management, cherry, trends, issues, amp
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-16
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0323052177
ISBN-13: 9780323052177

Popular for its comprehensive but concise overview of the issues facing nurses today, this text is designed to help you prepare for the dynamic world of modern health care. This edition is fully revised and updated, giving you the most practical, balanced preparation for the issues, trends, and management topics you’ll encounter in practice.Chapter features identify the most important concepts in each chapter and help you study more efficiently.Website references in every chapter direct you to online resources for additional learning.Critical Thinking Questions challenge your understandi

Author: Faan Martin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: bush, war, rhodesian, tales, duck, james
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-09-13
List price: $15.49
ISBN-10: 1434319733
ISBN-13: 9781434319739

A very different tongue-in-cheek personal account about a forgottenwar. Between 1964 and 1980 Rhodesian men from all walks of life lefttheir families and jobs to fight for their country. They were farmers,bankers, railwaymen, shopkeepers, miners and even Members ofParliament, who every six weeks, changed their soft civilian life forbattle dress, rifles and grenades.These are their stories.It’s not really about war heroes. It’s more about bluestone charged,but still lustful troops coping with fighting terrorists, boredom,longing, fear and death. All this set against the background o

Author: Ann Marriner Tomey PhD RN FAAN
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: leadership, guide, management, nursing, tomey, marriner
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2004-03-19
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0323028640
ISBN-13: 9780323028646

This well-respected text is designed to teach readers about leadership and the management process, as well as supplying practical information about nursing administration. Chapters in Part 1 lay the foundation for what it takes to lead in the clinical setting, such as communication, stress management, decision-making, power, and politics. In Part 2, management skills and issues are presented including financial management, culture and change, and development and evaluation of personnel. Throughout this edition, an emphasis on a global approach reflects the dynamic and evolving clinical environ

Author: Ann Marriner Tomey PhD RN FAAN
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: leadership, guide, management, nursing, tomey, marriner
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-02-27
List price: $61.95
ISBN-10: 032305238X
ISBN-13: 9780323052382

The 8th edition of this popular text has been completely revised and updated to include the latest strategies for improving your nursing leadership and management skills. It offers in-depth coverage and practical management strategies for a wide range of workplace issues such as delegation, diversity, evidence-based practice, stress management, quality improvement, legal issues, and recruitment and retention. A detailed analysis of today’s nursing environment prepares you to successfully manage in the midst of a nursing shortage and an emerging multigenerational workforce.UNIQUE! A logic

Author: Susan Blackburn PhD RN C FAAN
Publisher: Saunders
Keywords: physiology, maternal, neonatal, fetal, perspective, clinical, amp
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $112.00
ISBN-10: 1416029443
ISBN-13: 9781416029441

Provide the best care possible with expert insight and clinically relevant coverage of the physiologic changes that occur throughout all major periods of the perinatal experience - prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and neonatal. This text provides a solid foundation for assessment and therapeutic interventions, featuring an emphasis on the evolving interrelationships between mother, fetus, and neonate and adaptations of preterm and term infants to the extrauterine environment. This edition offers a new chapter on fetal assessment and surveillance, as well as expanded coverage of the physiolog

Author: Claire M. Fagin PhD RN FAAN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Keywords: leadership, nursing, essays
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2000-09-07
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0826113575
ISBN-13: 9780826113573

These are selections of the best of Claire Fagin’s writings written over a 30+-year period. They were written during a career that exemplifies many of the possibilities of nursing -- from her beginnings as a staff nurse in the adolescent psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital to becoming Interim President of the University of Pennsylvania. In her direct and vivid style, Fagin shares many of the skills necessary for becoming a nurse leader, and passionately discusses many of the issues facing health care in which nurses can play a leadership role. This is a compact but invaluable volume